Our Past: Wise move for Illinois Glass

An indication that the move from a small factory at Tenth and Bell streets was the wise move for Illinois Glass is visible in this photograph taken early in this century. The many bottle-shaped smokestacks for the huge furnaces indicate that business flourished and expansion was a necessity.

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This day in history:

1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.

1964 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents’ decision to forbid protests on UC property.

1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, and plays a concert two days later.

1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

1994 – The PlayStation was released in Japan

2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.

2014 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.

An indication that the move from a small factory at Tenth and Bell streets was the wise move for Illinois Glass is visible in this photograph taken early in this century. The many bottle-shaped smokestacks for the huge furnaces indicate that business flourished and expansion was a necessity.

http://www.thetelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web1_December-3.jpgAn indication that the move from a small factory at Tenth and Bell streets was the wise move for Illinois Glass is visible in this photograph taken early in this century. The many bottle-shaped smokestacks for the huge furnaces indicate that business flourished and expansion was a necessity. File photo

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